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These various needs can be met by the purchase of a small 
tract of land now lying practically waste, by the erection of a 
small building on the bank of Quiver Lake which shall combine 
additional facilities for laboratory investigation with living 
quarters for the Station staff, by the excavation of ponds on the 
Station grounds and the construction of a water tank and pump, 
and by the building of a large pavilion, with some connected 
rooms, for midsummer work by visiting students. 
Concerning the immediate future of the work, I beg to say 
that it is my present wish and intention, if the Station is main- 
tained on a scale and under conditions to make it possible, to 
extend its work especially along three principal lines. The pre¬ 
liminary systematic survey having been now largely completed, 
I hope next to select specific problems for solution by experi¬ 
mental methods, working towards definite cecological results of 
scientific value. Studies of the lower forms of aquatic life in 
our situation are now so far advanced as to make it profitable 
to bring into our scheme of regular operations the fishes of these 
waters. A particularly thorough, continuous, and comprehen¬ 
sive study of them should be made from various points of view, 
in the hope especially of helping the fisli-culturist to more intel¬ 
ligent methods and to more certain and permanent results. 
Although the Station was founded primarily for investiga¬ 
tion and its expenditures up to the present time have .all been 
made directly to that end, it is very apparent that it has a 
highly important work to perform in the interests of public 
education. I hope to occupy fully and at once this broad field 
of usefulness which now lies so plainly open before us, not only 
by continuing and enlarging our offerings to advanced students 
and to investigating naturalists, but especially by providing all 
needed facilities and instruction in field biology and in special 
pedagogical methods to present and prospective teachers of the 
natural history subjects in all grades of the public school. As 
a first step to this object, I have already submitted to you a 
plan for a summer school of field biology to be opened during 
the vacation season of next year. This work should, I do not 
doubt, become a permanent and prominent feature of the 
Station operations. 
I ought not to close this general review and presentation of 
the affairs of the Biological Station without calling your atten- 
